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[PATCH 1/4] Document new hard requirement on GNU make
- From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
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- Cc: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:08:05 -0500
- Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Document new hard requirement on GNU make
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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
As discussed in [1], it would be benificial for the GDB project to start
requiring GNU make to build its software. It would allow using useful
GNU-specific constructs, such as pattern rules. It would also allow
removing the alternative code paths in the Makefiles (guarded by
GMAKE_TRUE/GMAKE_FALSE), simplifying the Makefile code.
[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-11/msg00331.html
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Mention requirement of GNU make.
---
gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index a6b1282..d76ea81 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
compiler. The --disable-build-with-cxx configure option has been
removed.
+* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make.
+
+ It is no longer supported to build GDB or GDBserver with another
+ implementation of the make program.
+
* Native debugging on MS-Windows supports command-line redirection
Command-line arguments used for starting programs on MS-Windows can
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